Thread: How to format print for Hex like output

Hi,

I have this little bit of code to print out some numbers from a characer array, the code below prints out:
FFAC 11 1 4F 48 45 FFAA F 0

I would like to format this for printing as:
AC 11 01 4F 48 45 AA 0F 00

basically I want to

1. suppress leafing FF - where does that come from anyway?

2. add a leading zero to any value under 0xF


In my real programme the values in the array change so its not just a matter of printing it out once correctly it needs to print correctly no matter the values in the array.

Thanks for any help you can provide in getting the print format correct.

Code:

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>


void main() {

char dataarray[8];
int i;
	
	// Build up data to print via Array
	dataarray[0] = 172; //first octet of senders IP address in Hex  eg 10 - 0A
	dataarray[1] = 17; //second octet of senders IP address in Hex  eg 1 - 01
	dataarray[2] = 1; //third octet of senders IP address in Hex  eg 1 - 01
	dataarray[3] = 79; //fourth octet of senders IP address in Hex  eg 33 - 21
	dataarray[4] = 0x48; // H in Hex
	dataarray[5] = 0x45; // E in Hex
	dataarray[6] = 0xAA; // AA
	dataarray[7] = 0x0F; //this value is tha datalength of the packet  
	dataarray[8] = 0x00; //operate code: higher than 8
		

for (i=0;i<=8;i++)
{printf("%hX ",dataarray[i]);} 


}

Thank you quzah,

changing to unsigned fixed the leading FF problem.

I'm very new to C programming, I didn't realise the leading FFs were related to the data type.

I had %hX because when I only had %X I had even more leading characters.

%0X did not add leading 0 on single digit numbers - but %02X did :-)


Thanks Again.